Taking Requests for Background Photos

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Re: Taking Requests for Background Photos

#91 Post by Samu-kun »

The bonus background package has been released.

Contained in this package
Seoul (night and day)
Countryside
Coex
Dragon Peak (mountain top featured in Winter Sonata)
Aquarium
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Cave
2002 World Cup Stadium
Park
Lotte World (indoor and outdoor amusement park)
Fish market

This package contains 281 photographs, bringing the total of available backgrounds to 1335.
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#92 Post by Samu-kun »

The Very, Very Final Photo Package

I don't think there'll be much problem with releasing photographs of a school if they're all scenery shots without anyone in it. So, here's the very final package of a Japanese elementary school.

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Elementary school

This package contains 24 photographs, bringing the grand total of available free backgrounds to 1359.
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Re: Taking Requests for Background Photos

#93 Post by Ren »

Did they let you in when the school was about to close, or did you just wait for moments when no one was in your shot?
All the same, it's an impressive amount of photos, great job! It'll prove useful to study the texture for various materials as well, not just for straight referencing.

(as it goes, I'm a bit envious: I got horribly embarrassed in the past, when asking to take photos for backgrounds, and always ended up with a much less nice result, because I was trying not to inconvenience people for too long... :/)

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#94 Post by Samu-kun »

The elementary school was swarming with kids of course. The photographs in the package were selected from my batch of all the photographs I took that day based on the fact that they first, looked like backgrounds, and second, had nobody present inside of them, giving the wrong impression that I was visiting an empty school.

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#95 Post by sake-bento »

A huge thanks for taking all of these. These photos are great, and I'm sure they'll be very useful for some nice VN projects.

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#96 Post by lepapillonrouge »

>D Oh, thank goodness for all these photos, Samu-kun! Especially the beach ones. I can make a beach scene now! :D
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#97 Post by HumbertTheHorse »

Samu-kun, I am indebted to you. I live for reference images - I have three book-shelfs crammed with them and a filled NAS. Thank you very much for your effort.

Any and every photograph of Japanese ordinary life is nugget of gold. :D

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#98 Post by gundestiny »

These images are absolutely fantastic! I'll definitely use some of these as references ^^
Their quality is superb and the angles are great!

Very much appreciated!!!

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#99 Post by Asterisk »

Samu-kun, thankyou sooo much!!

These are really handy >_<!
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#100 Post by pkt »

I plan on crediting you if/when I release something with these.
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#101 Post by TrickWithAKnife »

I only just discovered this thread. Wonderful stuff. Are you still providing photos, Samu-kun?
"We must teach them through the tools with which they are comfortable."
The #renpy IRC channel is a great place to chat with other devs. Due to the nature of IRC and timezone differences, people probably won't reply right away.

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#102 Post by Samu-kun »

No I am not. Unless you want photographs of San Diego. ;)

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#103 Post by CheeryMoya »

Pics of San Diego wouldn't be a bad thing IMO, some photos outside of Japan might help people have some reference variety. Also, if it isn't too much trouble, maybe you could put all the photos into the first post? Maybe you should make a new thread altogether in the Creative Commons board since it'd be easier to find there.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm asking too much, just thinking about how to help people find your photos ;-;

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#104 Post by TrickWithAKnife »

I'm still in Japan, so I may be able to help people out with the occasional reference photo. Except schools, I don't want to scare anyone.
"We must teach them through the tools with which they are comfortable."
The #renpy IRC channel is a great place to chat with other devs. Due to the nature of IRC and timezone differences, people probably won't reply right away.

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#105 Post by Kuroneko_rg »

You are a real life saver Samu kun!
I'll use your photos as reference material when practicing my awful background art.

Thanks for your hard work :3

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